Weekly featuring Books - Monday 28th October 2024

° ° Wharton, Edith - Old New York ... Decorations by E.C. Caswell. First Edition, 4 vols. pictorial e/ps. to each volume; original roy. blue cloth...

° ° Forsyth, William - History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helen; from the Letters and Journals of the late Lieut.- Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, ...

° ° Lear, Edward - Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, 1st edition, original blind stamp blue cloth, gilt titles, spine bumped, small tear...

° ° Simond, Louis - Switzerland; or, a Journal of a Tour and Residence in that Country, in the years 1817, 1818 and 1819; followed by an Historica...

° ° Whymper, Edward - Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69. Fourth Thousand. 23 plates (1 coloured and folded), 5 folded maps and num. ...

° ° Wentworth, Lady Judith - Thoroughbred Racing Stock and its Ancestors: the authentic origin of pure blood. First Edition. very many plates (som...

° ° Dickson, H.R.P. - The Arab of the Desert. First Edition. num. plates (some coloured) and text illus., 6 folded tables and 7 (ex8) folded maps ...

° ° The Arab Horse Stud Book. first editions, vols. 1-14. photo. plates; original half calf marbled boards, gilt ruled spines with red labels, cr....

° ° Upton, Major R.D. - Gleanings from the Deserts of Arabia. original gilt pictorial cloth, cr.8vo. 1881

° ° Upton, Roger D. - Newmarket and Arabia: an examination of the descent of racers and coursers. hand coloured frontis. and 4 folded tables; orig...

° ° Harris, Albert W. - The History of the Arabian Horse Club Registry of America, Inc. illus., gilt cloth. Chicago, 1950; Lady Wentworth's Crabbe...

° ° Prior, C.M. - The Royal Studs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, together with a reproduction of the second Earl Godolphin's Stud-Boo...

° ° Grant, Christine Phelps - The Syrian Desert: caravans, travel and exploration. frontis., photo. plates and text illus., 3 folded maps; publish...

° ° Kingsley, Mary - West African Studies. 24 photo plates, 2 folded, coloured maps; near contemp. gilt ruled green calf prize binding with gilt a...

Gilbert, Josiah & Churchill. G.C. - The Dolomite Mountains. Excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli in 1861, 1862 and 1863, 2 co...

° ° Ongania, Ferdinand (editor) Calli and Canali in Venice and the Islands of the Lagoons... English Edition by F. Home-Rosenberg. title within de...

° ° Hegi, Franz – An untitled series of 36 hand-coloured aquatint views of European scenes, 3 of them signed by Franz Hegi, and 2 uncoloured aquat...

° ° Bindings – M. Douglas – Across Greenland’s Ice-Fields, the Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the Great Ice-Cap, first edition, 8vo, illustrati...

° ° Cyclist's Touring Club - Handbook & Guide. 2 parts; with Farm House, Country Lodgings and Coffee Tavern List. original printed wrappers, sm.9v...

° ° The Cambrian Traveller's Guide, in every direction ... in the Principality of Wales, and bordering districts ... pictorial title vignette, 2 f...

° ° Wells, James W. - Exploring and Travelling Three Thousand Miles through Brazil: from Rio De Janeiro to Maranhao ... 1st edition, 2 vols. front...

° ° Baker, Sir Samuel W. - Wild Beasts and their ways: reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. 2 vols. title illus. & 28 plates: origi...

° ° Woods, Joseph - Letters of an Architect from France, Italy, and Greece. 2 vols. 21 plates and text engravings; original cloth backed paper boa...

° ° Coetzee, J.M. - Waiting for the Barbarians. First Edition. half title, publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. Secker & Warburg, 1980 Condition: Book...

° ° Amis, Kingsley - I Like It Here: a novel. 1st Edition. half title; publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. Victor Gollancz, 1958; Isherwood, Christop...

° ° Rowling, J.K - The Casual Vacancy, 1st edition, signed by the author to title with Author's hologram sticker to verso of half-title, original ...

° ° Mantel, Hilary 3 Works - Bring Up The Bodies, 1st edition, signed by the author to title, with d/j, 2012; Mantel Pieces, 1st edition, signed b...

° ° Pratchett, Terry - Unseen Academicals, 1st edition, one of 3000. 2009, with slip case; Gemmell, David - Lord of the Silver Bow, signed, unopen...

° ° Harris, Robert - 5 works - all 1st editions, all signed, all with d/j’s - The Ghost, 2007; Munich, 2017; The Second Sleep, 2019; V2, 2020 and ...

° ° Modern First Editions - all signed, all with d/j’s - Faulks, Sebastian-2 works, Engleby, 2007 and Paris Echo, 2018; Osman, Richard - 2 works, ...

° ° Eight Modern First Editions, all signed, all with d/j’s - Desai , Kirman - The Inheritance of Loss, 2006; Wilder, Gene - My French Whore, 200...

° ° Powell, Anthony - Temporary Kings. 1st Edition. publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. 1973; Powell, Anthony - O, How the Wheel Becomes It!. 1st Edi...

° ° (Powell, Anthony). The following books with his armorial bookplate: Walpole, Horace - The Castle of Otranto. 4 tinted lithographed plates and ...

° ° Le Carré, John - The Looking-Glass War. First Edition (signed by the author on title). publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. Heinemann, 1965

° ° Fleming, Ian - Goldfinger. First Edition (1st impression, 2nd issue). pictorial text map, half title; publisher's black cloth, upper cover bl...

° ° Le Carré, John - The Naive and Sentimental Lover. First Edition (signed by author). publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. Hodder and Stoughton, 1...

° ° Hemingway, Ernest - A Moveable Feast. 1st English Edition. half title; publisher's cloth and d/wrapper, decorated e/ps. Jonathan Cape, 1964

° ° Lee, Harper - To Kill A Mockingbird. 1st English Edition. half title, publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. Heinemann, 1960

° ° Le Carre, John – 7 works – The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, 9th impression, cloth in d/j, Victor Gollancz, London, 1964; Tinker Tailor Sold...

° ° Buchan, John - The Thirty-Nine Steps. 1st Edition. half title and advert. leaf: original blue lettered cloth (rebacked with spine laid-down, t...

° ° Francis, Dick - Dead Cert. First Edition (signed by author on title, his first book). publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. Michael Joseph, 1962

° ° Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. First Edition. large folded and coloured pictorial map, title within decor...

° ° Kennelly, Brendan - The Boats Are Home. 1st edition. printed wrappers. Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1980. * with a contemporary 3 line inscripti...

° ° Landesman, Fran - More Truth Than Poetry. 1st Edition. printed wrappers. Jay Landesman, 1979. *inscribed on half title - 'to Alan Jay Lerner (...

° ° Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 1st edition pictorial boards and d/wrapper; 2000; Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter and the Or...

° ° Hart-Davis, Rupert (editor) - The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: correspondence of George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davies (1955-1962). First E...

° ° Greene, Graham - A Wedding among the Owls. An extract from The Human Factor. Limited Edition (of 250 copies). original printed wrappers. Bodle...

° ° Fine binding - Barker, Pat - The Ghost Road, signed by the author, dated 24th Oct. 1996, in a fine binding by Angela James, including the fron...

° ° Timlin, William M. (1894-1943) - The Ship That Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy, 4to, original vellum backed grey brown boards, dust jacket ragged at...

° ° Milligan, Spike (1918-2002) - a collection of 52 books, including Humour and Satire, which include his ‘’War Memoirs’’, Poetry, Children’s boo...